Establishing the configuration for Capture requires that you determine the scope of each configuration setting. Capture provides different levels of configuration. Using commands on the Options menu, you can:
- Customize the working environment specific to your system (set preferences in the ).
- Create default settings for new designs (with the ). These settings stay with the design even if it is moved to another system with different preferences.
- Override design template settings in individual designs (with the command) or individual schematic pages (with the ).
- Create default settings for new parts (set part properties using the ).
- Override default properties on individual parts (set package properties using the
No matter where you are in Capture, the Options menu always has a Preferences command and a Design Template command. In addition, the Options menu contains a command specific to the current active window. For example, the project manager's Options menu contains the Design Properties command, while the schematic page editor's Options menu contains the Schematic Page Properties command.
The settings in the determine how Capture works on your system, and persist from one Capture session to the next. However, if you pass a design to another person, that person doesn't inherit your Preferences settings. This means that you can set colors, grid display, pan and zoom, and other things to your liking, and they won't change, even if you work on a design created on someone else's system.
The determines the characteristics of all the designs created on your system. Because a new design inherits characteristics from the current design template, it's a good idea to check the design template settings before you create a new design.
Once you begin working on a design, you can customize its particular characteristics by choosing the from the Options menu when you are in the project manager, or the when you are in the schematic page editor.
Similarly, you use the and the on the part editor's Options menu to set default part properties and customize those settings for individual parts. ).